Rhetoric Quotes - Page 3

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Action achieves ambition.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

In a democracy government is the God.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

All worries are less with wine.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

It is always healthy to be honest.

We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.

It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.

True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge and simplicity are the foundation of all true eloquence. Eloquence abounds in beautiful and natural images, sublime but simple conceptions, in passionate but plain words. Burning words appeal to the emotions as well as to the intellect; they stir the soul and touch the heart.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.